Continuing from previous item about Deepstate tricks.
When I was fooled by Deepstate in the '60s and '70s, there was NO INFORMATION AVAILABLE to set me right. Libraries and newspapers were just as one-sided as now. Shortwave brought in alternate viewpoints, which helped to some extent.
Some youngsters were lucky enough to have parents or mentors who could see through the nonsense. My parents were standard Liberals who absorbed and spewed the nonsense happily.
When I was about 12, my dying Grandpa tried to convey a broad message in direct opposition to the Liberal parents.
PAY ATTENTION. KEEP IT SIMPLE. ARRANGE YOUR WORLD SO YOU CAN TRUST YOUR HANDS AND SENSES.
I understood the message in a narrow way, but didn't have any further contact with Grandpa and his wisdom. The message didn't get reinforced and repeated in different contexts, and I didn't understand it fully until too late.
Grandpa had been a truly independent thinker, which I didn't grasp at all until two years ago, when I found two accidentally preserved papers that destroyed the family myths.
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The current hippies don't have the same excuse. Accurate information about Deepstate is all around them, easily available on the Web. Start with Wikileaks and expand through other leakers and independent thinkers.
Too much info. It's too easy to find stuff that sounds rebellious and agrees with Soros. The Soros "rebellion", like the earlier hippie "rebellion", is carefully crafted to provide answers for all doubts.

About Me

Polistra was named after the original townsite of Manhattan (the one in Kansas). When I was growing up in Manhattan, I spent a lot of time exploring by foot, bike, and car. I discovered the ruins of an old mill along Wildcat Creek, and decided (inaccurately) that it was the remains of the original site of Polistra. Accurate or not, I've always liked the name, with its echoes of Poland (an under-appreciated friend of freedom) and stars. ==== The title icon is explained here. ==== Switchover: This 2007 entry marks a sharp change in worldview from neocon to pure populist. ===== The long illustrated story of Polistra's Dream is a time-travel fable, attempting to answer the dangerous revision of New Deal history propagated by Amity Shlaes. The Dream has 8 episodes, linked in a chain from the first. This entry explains the Shlaes connection.